Conditioning - for time
30 hang power clean 95#
30 lateral jump over bar burpees
30 chest to bar pullups
30 shoulder to overhead 95#
9:24
//Took it out too fast and ran out of gas in the middle of the pullups.

Wednesday, 5/15/2019 CrossFit Workout

Warmup - circuit with TTB, jumping, stretching warmup, barbell warmup

Strength - Back Squat - 95/3, 135/3, 165/3, 185/3, 205/3, 215/3, 225/3
//I was expecting this to be a "reach" weight today and it was pretty close to limit for now. Happy with it.

Felt hoooorible in the water! I think my legs were not happy after softball Thursday, hadn't done any cutting/acceleration type movement since I got sick. So I had some intermittent foot and calf cramps and my hip flexors were/are really sore so my breaststroke kick was fairly nonexistant!

//Super ran out of gas by the end. Lungs have a lot of catching up to do.
Wednesday, 5/8/2019 CrossFit Workout

Warmup - plyos, KB warmup

Strength - Deadlift - 135/5, 185/3, 225/2, 275/2, 295/2, 320/2
//Went up really, really slow, but it went up. So I'm not quite back at square one, but not too far off. My first CF workout (and first time deadlifting) 7 years ago I maxed out at 285 for a single.

I figured some goals I have for next winter/spring season. Partly extra motivation on the comeback trail here, partly to guide my training over the next year. I don't know why I'm doing this to myself but I'd like to get some of my middle distance chops back. So, in that vein, my goals for next year (hopefully Spring Masters Nationals?) are sub-2:00 200 fly and sub-2:10 200 breast. Two more barriers I never really had a chance to break in college. We'll see how it goes.

Took video of last set of deadlifts: 1) I am still super scrawny and look super-uncoordinated with the barbell, so lots of work to do there still, and 2) My male pattern baldness, pretty much undetectable a year ago, has *really* accelerated... almost a lost cause at this point!

Keeping an eye on Nationals results... looks like I'll slide through in the Top Ten in the 100 IM, 50 back, 50 free, and possibly 50 breast thus far. Hoping to survive in one of the butterflies so I can have one of each discipline in there! 100 free and 200 IM I'm out.

Keeping moving with light workouts this week. Though they really don't feel light... was pretty out of breath throughout this one. Trying to make a little progress every day.

Just have to keep repeating the "it's going to be a process" mantra to myself. Strokes are still... sort of there. Everything is going to come back as fast or slow as my strength and weight comes back.

I definitely don't have any insulation on my body right now - I was freezing when I got out of the pool. And I was very hungry not far after - which is a very good sign that my appetite is back and my body wants to fuel itself.

First day back to work after hospital. Made it through the day, plus a grocery store run, plus a pretty brisk dog walk and felt better than I had since I'd been discharged. So I did...

2x 3 rounds (10 pushups, 10 air squats)

And I felt very weak. This is going to be a process getting my strength and weight back up!

Some very light barbell lifts Tuesday night, and then I will take my scrawny body back to the pool Wednesday morning. I think I will do 20x50 mixed up, and if I feel OK after that a little bit of fin kick. One step at a time.

So... after much gnashing of teeth and laying in a fetal position early last week, I went to the emergency room. Turns out I had pancreatitis as a reaction to one of my UC meds. I got four days in the hospital with an IV drip, a day and a half which was NPO, a day and a half clear liquid diet and now onto low fat. But I'm out, and I feel a little bit more like myself. I'm down at least 20 pounds and it's not in great places - I've lost most of the mass on my shoulders and arms and my pants don't fit. So it's going to be a process to get back.

Plan is to start getting back in the water with a few 1000s or so this week, and also do some really, really light weightlifting the other days to start building my strength and energy back up. Eat as much as I can tolerate, not too fast but the dietician told me to not be shy about eating because of the weight loss.

I did get some good news over the week. The club team my Masters team is attached to had their yearly awards ceremony, and apparently they gave me a mentorship award for how I was with the kids at and leading up to Sectionals this winter. That was really good to hear, and I hope I can get back to the point where I can be a good example again. Something to work toward. Also had some other good news recently but not allowed to share that just yet :P